As Marten de Roon stands in the middle of a Teesside shopping mall, cuddling babies and talking teething problems with mothers, his once fearsome reputation as The Wave-Breaker seems under severe threat.

As Marten de Roon stands in the middle of a Teesside shopping mall, cuddling babies and talking teething problems with mothers, his once fearsome reputation as The Wave-Breaker seems under severe threat.